Indian farmers stream fake cricket match to Russian betters - Peculiar Portions Podcast #66

[@prydenationz9743]

Simon talking about forgery while holding a spiffco mug is peak

[@bmxdude1337]

@@Ora_ peak PP

[@bmxdude1337]

@@abcxyz53 peak beak

[@andrewrobinson4019]

Skiing is the opposite of Chess. This is why I watch this podcast. Cutting edge information.

[@reedfreund5726]

The annual wage for a rural Indian man is 14,000 rupees, which is about 175 dollars. Four thousand dollars is equivalent to 22 years of work for a day laborer.

[@MMA-SirOwlbie]

For a bit more reference, though I'm not Indian but more- Indian-adjactent, I guess, but I don't think there's too much different between the currencies- anyways- 4000 dollars - or, as the article says 300k rupees - is enough for a middle/high-middle class family for a month plus have enough for some savings, I think. Not bad at all, they probably did turn a profit, but dunno by how much. If those suits were really imitations of actual players' outfits, they can't have been too cheap.

[@Scio_]

Nah, jerseys with pro players' names are very common. It's cheap cosplay!

[@willdazey7368]

For the Chess robot news: the robot was removing a piece from the board before moving its piece to take that location. The kid seems to have then moved another piece to the same location, before the robot could finish moving its piece to take the square. When the robot saw a piece was still at the location, it figured it hadn't removed the piece, so it tried again to remove the piece there. The kid had his hand on the piece, so the robot grabbed the finger at the same time. TLDR; the kid tried to move a piece while the robot was clearing the board and the robot grabbed a piece the kid had just moved.

[@anononomous]

Irrespective it's still probably a good idea limit the power of the jaw if possible so it can't snap opponent's fingers.

[@seanpope1890]

From my understanding the robot was borrowed from somewhere and didn't realize that it was hurting the kid

[@seanpope1890]

Also I read about this quite a while ago so I don't remember the exact details

[@jacobgame2757]

@@anononomous Thats actually a super hard problem which we are yet to solve. Humans have tactile feedback when we grab stuff. We can manipulate objects with no visual feedback, this allows us to have great spatial perception and regulate our grip strength. If you anaesthetise someones hand they can't strike a match for example because we rely on that feedback so much. Currently robots basically purely rely on vision (light spectrum, infrared, etc). This works far better than our vision but as a complete system isn't as good as our full array of senses. When we discover an accurate and cost-effective way to implement tactile touch then there will be another huge revolution in robotics. It will allow robots to work in home environments safely, they will be able to prepare food and do basically anything a human can physically. The food thing is where basically all the funding for research comes from as a machine that can make sandwiches or put cherries on cakes would allow the food industry to be completely automated. Currently, it's one of the few industries which has been largely unaffected by robotic advancements (there are machines but it's nothing like what the car industry or other similar industries use).

[@anononomous]

@@jacobgame2757 We're not talking about the precise force control soft fruit here. Simply limiting the power/torque/pressure available would mean it would pinch but not break bones.

[@ElvesOffTheMoor]

"Greatest English sport" Well it's no Dorset Knob Tossing, but I guess cricket is cool too

[@ParanoidTortoise]

I love the condescending tweet attached to the robot story. What happened to that child is called user error and mechanical oversight.

[@MrJinxmaster1]

Not hearing simon do an indian accent was NEARLY as funny as hearing simon do an indian accent.

[@tomw6612]

I love Lewis but the thought of him doing something manly just makes me laugh. I can't see him digging a ditch or chopping wood without complaining ..🤣

[@gormster]

I remember in the TTT wood shop map he was talking about how he’d love to have a shop like that but in reality it would all be laser cutters and 3D printers and CNC because he’s still a nerd at heart.

[@xSuperiorManx]

I remember the "Heroes & Generals" video series (where Simon injured his hand by holding onto a grenade). Part of such a video was Lewis, Simon & Duncan moving a few sandbags around. My god... never before in my entire life had I seen a bunch of people more physically... what's the opposite of being "fit? ... "unfit" than these three. >_>

[@JoshuaPitts]

@@xSuperiorManx physically inept

[@JohnnyNatrium]

Did you forget he had military training? He was in some army boot camp or another.

[@JiltedPecan]

@@JohnnyNatrium doesn't make him 'manly'

[@PoniesGonnaPwn]

10:40 I guess we've figured out how we can finally watch the rest of Shadow of Israphel.

[@knitterknerd]

That was my first thought! I'd absolutely watch it. Might even pay 20 bucks for it.

[@Big_Cash_Industries]

Who needs to watch the news when I can watch Peculiar Portions

[@bleedgoat]

Chess Terminator when picking starting positions: "I'll be black"...

[@HebaruSan]

So next episode will be the Indian substitute version of Simon's PP? Lewis sounds very enthusiastic about figuring out the logistical wrinkles.

[@tyjay6752]

I imagine that the robot just keeps playing and is like "CHECKMATE, HUMAN", and does a little victory dance over the kid crying and clutching his hand.

[@aBendorff]

And then... it pulls out the knife.

[@AcceptTheNull]

Jake is still considered by the fans in Denver to be one of the best quarterbacks we have ever had. Both on and off the field, for Denver, he was terrific. Usually it's like Coconut husks or even certain bird seed or hay/manure combo in the bag and you sterilize the bag and then inject spores or a liquid culture, of mycelium, into the bag. Mycelium, is the white stuff that grows in the bag and eats the substrate. The mushrooms are fruits from the mycelium. You can actually get the mycelium to fruit mushrooms multiple times. Large commercial grows for food are often done in caves where the mycelium is broken up and mycelium is the spread around a larger box filled with more food/substrate and grow to fill the entire box. Workers pick the mushroom, cover it up a bit again with substrate and wait for another grow. The picking process and regrowth can happen multiple times.

[@baht8580]

Lewis’ strange woodworking obsession shows itself again.

[@Tanman75Gaming]

Don't know if this will be read by a yogscast member but I am a long time fan, watch Lewis and Simon since first minecraft videos and seeing your journey through KZbin. I saw Duncan and others join the yogscast and just wanted to say you guys are great and put a smile on my face every time. You are basically my childhood (teenager to 20's)

[@jonasquinn7977]

It took me until Simons weird pronounciation of “betters” to realise that the story was talking about Russian people betting on something, not calling the Russians the betters of Indians

[@hhshshdhdhhshaga]

@@abcxyz53 Not misspelled, bettors is correct.

[@anyoldthing]

Poor Lewis would probably have a reaction to sawdust if he tried woodworking

[@harrystuart7455]

If sloths eat too much food too much at once then they die of starvation. The food takes so long to digest that they don't get the nutrients out of it before they use up all their fat stores

[@JohnnyNatrium]

To be fair, this depends on what they eat. There are food sources that are rich enough in easily metabolized energy that they won't run out of said energy (the modus of starvation) before digesting it.

[@batterysandwich5348]

i got scared when simon started talking about mr show, he reached into my brain and reaps my thoughts

[@SmashedHatProject]

Lewis' Australian is the essence of bin-chicken energy

[@willdazey7368]

The perfect crime takes no more than 3 people and requires you to kill the other 2 as part of the crime

[@emc2beans]

Citation needed, but the first PP reminded me a story I saw years ago where, in order to avoid the opposing European team from spying and knowing their plays, an Asian soccer/football team swapped player jerseys since the coach knew the Europeans couldn't tell their players apart by their faces. (If anyone has heard this story as well and remembers the source, that would be much appreciated!)

[@kevinmorgan2968]

‘Boffin Bot Breaks Boys Bone!’ Is surely how it would have been reported in the UK

[@spacemaria_]

A PP day is a happy day

[@boytype]

Psilocybin is also decriminalized and will soon be commercially available in Colorado!

[@Noahedwar]

CBD has a lot of anti inflammatory stuff with it. It was the only thing that helped with my chronic back pain. I had a steroid shot and they were considering fusing my vertebrae. CBD did it. Confirmed not snake oil. Though you do have to make sure you buy the right stuff. There is snake oil out there labelled CBD.

[@christinaMattsson]

22:15 😂 TY for another great pp.

[@isaaccboyd8887]

39:39 “topologically a human being is a torus” is a sentence I never thought I would hear

[@chibiauthor]

as long as the robot dont do chess boxing we're okay

[@sweetlolitaChii]

I lost it at the first line of the Joey Chestnut article 😂😂

[@VideoSage]

I am heartbroken that the Indian farmers outwitting the Russians got caught.

[@heyheyitsjae2475]

The ending bit reminds me of my favorite Zefrank quote. "We're all just tubes with fancy bits attached"

[@JohnnyNatrium]

Lewis just looks more like a hippie every day and I didn't know this was possible.

[@ArkonArchive]

“…and The Force is Communism!” -Simon Lane 2022

[@ivantumanov1015]

Simon: "Can we just pay indians to make things?" Fiverr: "allow me to introduce myself"

[@epiclexi1234]

Lewis, mushrooms aren't just randomly poisonous😂 you grow specific species of mushrooms!

[@12345BTU]

These are so good lol

[@Tachii31]

So, who wants to help pay some Indian farmers to finish Shadow of Israphel?

[@lalunafate]

My favourite couple

[@kiyan7997]

"Topologically, a human being is a taurus", god I love Simon

[@visageliquifier3636]

Torus. He's close. The nasal passage is another entry to the same hole, so humans are more like a genus 1 solid with 3 ends.

[@g3ngar04]

Happy PP DAY!!

[@judechauhan6715]

24:00 CHESS... PETRIL

[@nazamroth8427]

I thought they faked cricket matches, as in animal fights.... I was wondering how you make crickets fight...

[@ComXDude]

Battle of the bands

[@jarvinator100]

That would be a lot more entertaining than actual cricket.

[@OptimisticNihilist15]

@@jarvinator100 Clearly you haven't seen international level T20 matches

[@bakabridget9248]

i thought this exact same thing, 🤣

[@jarvinator100]

@@OptimisticNihilist15 Mate it doesn't matter the level, cricket is always piss boring.

[@DarkSoldier008]

The opposite of Chess is obviously a Wedgie.

[@andrewherridge8419]

Right everyone, I'm having a whip around to get funds together for Indian SoI 43.

[@Scio_]

As an Indianmun I'd like to confess that I know even less about cricket than these Russian bettors and their British betters: Simon and Lewis.

[@Scio_]

I also can't do the Indian accent. I'm sorry.

[@johnsmith6497]

The earliest automated chess ai was actually the mechanical turk

[@argentandroid5732]

The mushroom thing is called nootropics, btw. I don't know about other mushrooms but Lion's Mane has been shown to have some benefit to cognitive function. It's not going to make you a genius or anything, but it will clear away a bit of the brain cloud.

[@klaxoncow]

I like that Lewis says he wants to do something manly. Like woodworking. ...and the first thing he goes to is that it smells nice. Yes, very manly there, Lewis.

[@stubbyfoamz1]

I get where he's coming from. Nothing beats the smell of a freshly mowed lawn.

[@ArtficialFlvrz]

What's unmanly about liking the scent of cut wood or the shop full of chips and sawdust? How would that make it any less so in any way?

[@YraExalgaSkgs]

I was thinking actual crickets doing something like a race... Boy, I feel pretty stupid.

[@acolize8883]

God i love simon. I miss u and lewis playin minecraft 🥺

[@shadeCS2]

Love you guys ~

[@Justin-TPG]

"Little kids' fingers are very breakable"

[@erilidon1]

Can we get India to remake the last season of GoT?!

[@majorphysics3669]

FYI, theres an industrial mushroom farm in my city. It smells like absolute SHIT near there. Very smelly business on that scale.

[@thewildmitchell]

13:03 this can't be more politically correct than just doing the accent 😂

[@Emperorhirohito19272]

Topologically humans are not a torus we have more than 1 hole

[@knitterknerd]

Yes, unfortunately, humans are not coffee mugs. Or tea cups, I guess.

[@aBendorff]

"Cricket is a huge sport and everyone known how to play it" - Lewis Meanwhile i was suprised that it looked like baseball because i had thought they hit balls with mallets like crocket.

[@gazeros69]

Hahah same! I thought it was the horse crocket one!

[@JohnnyNatrium]

@@gazeros69 That's called polo. And the other sport you're referring to is Croquet, not "crocket".

[@foo219]

When all the professional sportsball events were shut down due to the Backstreet Boys reunion tour, betters here in Sweden got so desperate for something to bet on that they started to bet on children's practice soccer games. Unfortunately that led to preteen soccer players and teenage umpires receiving death threats over match results. What a lovely, friendly culture soccer is.

[@SoybeanGravy]

Lewis knows about as much about betting as I do - which is to say: fuck all - but I work in pubs in Australia and it was slightly funny to me how naive Lewis was about what people will bet on. Like, gamblers will really bet on anything, knowing anything about it is not a requirement at all. If they can throw $50 at it and have a rough idea of the odds, they’ll get the thrill they’re after from it .

[@FluffyroxGames]

Simon being the first person I've ever heard to mention Mr. Show in the first video I put on immediately after I finished the series for the first time was a real shock to the system.

[@ctimerun3693]

As an amateur mixologist, I'm excited to learn what you can make with hotdog syrup. Aside from a version of yourself that feels ill.

[@nicholasfell670]

Phone up india to finish shadow of israphel

[@ayaansiddiqui4244]

4 japanese robots killed 28 scientists from south Korean , look it up.

[@dougpowers]

I think it's spelled 'bettors'.

[@TheAwes0meo]

31:24 Sounds like characters from Celeste.

[@joannafullerton4869]

Just saying to make everyone mad at me. Hearing cricket described as people.jusr standing at round except for the thrower and batter. Cricket is just baseball.

[@sonic-factory]

@21:33 OK I really need to know - does Simon say "Greggs" here? If so, it's the 2nd greatest joke on KZbin ever!

[@Trick.Sparrow]

I think it's 'spreads, I guess'

[@Yasha277]

I don't get why doing an Indian accent is racist but doing an accent of any English-speaking country is okay. I don't get offended when people do bad American accents, pretty sure Indians aren't worked up about people doing their accent, either. If you're making fun of them that's one thing, but if you're just doing it for fun, who cares?

[@olishant]

TIL ringworm is a fungus...

[@Mushnp]

The hotdog sentence wasn't weird, Lewis just decided to ignore how the English language works and pause at random times.

[@shiny_Six]

I learned that I'm a donut today

[@Balsiefen]

I look forward to the Yogscast being entirely replaced with cheaply hired Indian farmers.

[@ducky5945]

We want answers, Luke. Give us the sauce

[@DarthRevan42]

They say the word "sure" far too often in this episode

[@divamon5602]

WOOOO!

[@RedSntDK]

I've noticed that Brits say "Rodan" when talking about Auguste Rodin. How does a "I" turn into an "A"? 🤔 EDIT: Also, at 34:00, jeeez! This is why we love the comma in Denmark. That sentence was incomprehensible! Break it up some more, digestible pieces.

[@lewiscarroll860]

Because it's French. But then that raises the question of why the French pronounce it like that.

[@bleedgoat]

@@lewiscarroll860 we don't ask that question anymore...

[@TarisRedwing]

I like Simon's Spiffco Mug

[@gruntslayer3524]

Was this sport news or farmer news

[@TheBugB]

Nice

[@judeskye7124]

CHESS PETROL!

[@RubelliteFae]

3:45 "the village of Gujarat" 😆 Gujarat, India is nearly 200,000 km² (b/c it's a state) Amazing everyone at this The Verge missed this

[@MMA-SirOwlbie]

iunno, a village name Gujarat when Gujarat is a state isn't too outlandish.

[@RubelliteFae]

@@MMA-SirOwlbie Nah, I read the article later. The "writer" just summarized a Times of India article and mistyped "a" as "the." The actual village is Molipur in Vadnagar in Mahesana in Gujarat in India. (With as much as they emphasized how career ending plagiarism was at Uni, I can't believe the state of "journalism," btw. Just had to get that off my chest. 😩💨)

[@epictom3423]

Epic

[@jakebrualdi9583]

37:10 A. 100,00 hot dogs is a drop in the ocean as far as worldwide famine is concerned. B. New York city is one place in a 1st world country. C. I'm hardly one to talk, considering the only time I've donated to charity is when I payed the minimum amount to get the 2021 Jingle Jam games bundle.

[@Talula_AboutTown]

moo anyone else notice the blue and yellow uniforms for the teams that tricked the russian betting? slava ukraini

[@OptimisticNihilist15]

Those blue and yellow in the still photo teams were the actual professional teams in IPL

[@Talula_AboutTown]

@@OptimisticNihilist15 they also had yellow and blue in the video :3

[@TrinityCodex]

a spinning lad you say?

[@paulbaker7500]

making fun of accents is culturally insensitive but not racist. your race does not determine your accent

[@chandrakas]

Cricket?! Nobody understands cricket. You have to understand what a crumpet is before you can understand cricket!

[@WildBluntHickok]

As a Canadian I love watching the local cricket matches without understanding the game. Nothing like a nice sit on the grass on a sunny day while watching strange monks do funny religious dances.

[@YoMateo.]

Whoever's reading this, i pray that whatever you're going through gets better and whatever you're struggling with or worrying about is going to be fine and that everyone has a fantastic day! Amen

[@Petrslav]

Thanks man. Needed this

[@Riku-Leela]

Thank you, same for you king

[@bookboy6924]

execute order.. 66

[@Chrysus.]

so weird watching this at normal speed

[@RubelliteFae]

Wait, wait, wait. Doing an accent would be racist, but they think nothing of a couple of well off Englishmen paying Indians a pittance to reenact old things they miss? 🤦‍♀

[@TheHeroBeats]

One is actively doing something that would be considered Racist (Putting on a stereotypical accent of a group of people), the other is a joke about a completely hypothetical scenario that they aren't actually doing or participating in.

[@XRatedPoetry]

"good enough to fool the russians" that ain't saying much.

[@JosephPiatt]

Is Lewis wearing one of those cloth tarps you put over things in a moving van?

[@aurorabora7557]

Boxing is the opposite of chess! It was never trained in chess boxing

[@Maedelrosen]

1340

[@matheuscavalcante8336]

Simon Australian is not a race

[@GrandiaKnight]

Bit slow. The indian cricket story is almost two months old

[@SpaceClown404]

INB4 PEOPLE FUCKING DIE BECAUSE SIMON TOLD THEM TO DRIVE 71 IN A CITY, INCLUDING ME LMAO

[@WildBluntHickok]

To be fair he didn't name a unit. 71 mph, 71kmh, 71 inches per hour.